“A Plea for Justice: Why Texas Will Be Executing an Innocent Man” is an ongoing, multi-part documentary series that examines the facts and evidence in the capital murder case against Rodney Reed for which he currently faces an execution date of November 20th (2019) in the state of Texas. The series is intended to highlight the evidence that illustrates that Reed is actually innocent of the crime in hopes that this pending, wrongful execution can be avoided.
Part 1 “Time of Death," describes the relevance of the forensic medical evidence in this case that has surfaced since the original trial which now exonerates Rodney Reed. In this section, we hear how vital the misleading testimony of the original medical examiner Roberto Bayardo was in attaining the original conviction. Based on the review of the evidence by world renowned specialists, like Dr. Michael Baden, we also hear startling new evidence concerning the movement of the victim hours after death, a key development that clearly implicates another suspect - the victim’s live-in boyfriend, and local police officer Jimmy Fennell.
